Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1923, Page 1

iy WEATHER. Generally fair and continued 'warm ‘weather tonight and tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four ‘hours !ndlfl at 2 pm. today. Highest: 88, at € a.m,'today. . “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every ity block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes 0 p.m. yesterday ; lowes Full report on page 7. flofi! N. Y. Stocks a_l_ul Bonds, Page 24 No. vt o * 50000 FLEE LAVA AS ETNA DESTROYS 3 TOWNS ON SLOPE Advance of Molten Rock Menaces Other Cities. Eruption More Violent. 28,903. SUN DARKENED BY ASHES BELCHED OUT BY VOLCANO Earth Shocks Still Continuing. Refugees Pouring Into Catania. Vesuvius Also Active. By the Associated Press. CATANIA, Italy, June 19.— The eruption of Mount Etna continues unabated. One stream lava now threatening Giarre, about 20,000 inhabitants at the base of the volcano, beginning to leave. About 50,000 persons have alrcad been made homelgss in the area sur rounding Etna. The ashes, cinder ana stones emitted by the are so thick as to darken t Prof. Ponzl of the University Catania has gone to Etna to ascer- aln whether a new crater opened on of sun. the eastern slope is that which was | active in 1879, Archbishop Asks Al .rdindl Francica Nava, Archbishop | of Catania, has communicated to the | clergy in the stricken area the faith- ful and paternal interest of the pon- | tff in the sufferings of the popula- tion. He has also received struc- tions to do all' he can in rélieving the refugees. The mountain's terrible manifesta- tions come ftfully; at moments the CSruption seems to be dying down. but ranean rumblings and agaln bursts into flame. The exodus of the population from the region about the cone continues. the crater The roads are full of panic-stricken | people, carrying their seeking places of safe seems never ending, belongings, The stream s the district between Catania and Etna is one of the most densely populated in the world, with an average of more than 3,000 persons to the square milé LAVA STILL ADVANCING. ‘Violence of Eruption Is Increasing. | 30,000 Hemeless. By the Assoclated Pres: ROME, June 19.—The wave of lava ! from the violent eruption of Mount Etna is advancing steadily today on | Linguaglossa, dispatches from Catanta | Lava is flowing across the rail- | way and has reached a point only a | town. | state. few hundred yards from Castiglione also {s menaced. The violence of thn eruption is in- creasing. Gabrielo Carnazza, the vastated region aroun1 Mount Ewna to assist in caring for the 30,000 persons | Wwho have-been made homeless by the mighty mountain’s eruption, Dispatches from Catania early today added nothing of importance to the tale of destruction done by the voicano. Hope was éxpressed that Linguaglossa, | which at one time yesterday appeared o be doomed by the lava stream, was out of danger. Three little towns— Piccilo, Palldmelata and Fero—have been completely wiped out. Refugees are pouring into Catania from the little communities that lie almost in the shadow of the moun- tain, and the Catanlans are doing thelr utmost to make the refugees comfortable. Somé of those arriving irom the menaced region last evening reported a continuance of the earth shocks that announced the first great outpouring of lava. Eyewitnesses of the eruption say that mot only did the main crater of Etna break finto “activity, but five vast fissures appeared in the north- eastern side of the volcano, contribut- ing to the flow of lava upon the for- ests and fruit groves that clothed the | lower slopes of the mountain. valuable timber, in addition to the orange and lemon orchards, has been destroyed. Mount Vesuvius continues moder- ately active, emitting much steam and lava. This, it is remarked, is unusual, for when Etna is active Vesuvius is ordinarily quiet, and vice versa PREUS NOMINATED Much FOR NELSON'S SEAT Magnus Johnson and James A. Carley, Farmer-Labor and Democratic Choices. By the Associated Press. 8T.. PAUL, Minn.. June 19.—Gov. J. A. 0. Preus, republican; Magnus ~ Johnson, farmer-labor, and James A. Carley, democrat, were nominated in yesterday's primary to contest July 16 to succeed the late Knute Nelson, Minnesota’s senior United States sen- | ator. Political observers expect the main fight in the final seat, until March 4, 1925, to be be- tween the governor and Mr. Joknson. In the recent gubernatorial campalgn Preus defeated Johnson votes.. Gov. Preus’ lead in a field of nine continues to grow as additional re- turns come in today. With one-third ~of the ate reported, representing possibly half the total Vote, the goy- ernor has a lead of more than 13,000 | votes over Oscar Hallam, former jus- tice of the state sdipreme court, his nearest opponent. Johnson's margin over Dr. L. A. Fritsche, . mayor of New Ulm, Is not 50 greaf, but mush of the former's recognized territory has not been heard from. In one-third of the state's ‘3,520 precincts Johnson has a lead of 5,000 votes. Carley is an easy victor over Francis Cary on the dem- ocratic ticket. The primary vote was exceptionally light' and ‘indications early today were that the total for all three par- ties would not exceed 325,000, as com- pared to 385,138 votes cast in the last fwgubernatorial election by the sam parties.. i and the population is | voleano of | shortly there come the dread subter-| Itallan minister | of public works, has left for the de- ' election for the| by 14,000 Ente eti_as second-class matter, post office Washington, D. C. |Porto Rico Gives Harding 2 Votes For Nomination | { By the Assoclated Press. SAN JUAN, P. R., June 19.—Presi- dent Harding was pledged two votes for renomination by the republicans of Porto Rico In a special convention {1ast night, which also adopted a new platform with statehood as the goal and advocating the immediate liber- alizing of the territorial form of gov- ernment to include the extension here the election of the governor. The conventlon by resolution ex- pressed appreciation of former Gov. Reily for what was characterized as his fundamental work in the princi- ples of Americanization, and censured Gov. Towner for his “arbitrary con- duct” toward the party in the ap- peintment of all the cabinet members from the unionist party. HUGHES SURE PLAN - FOR COURT IS SAFE is a city of Not Possible to Set Up Fairer Tribunal for U. S. to Join, Says Secretary. sociated Press. N. H. { Permanent Court of International Jus- | tice constitutes a tribunal with naards “that conform to our high- est courts,” Secretary { here today, speaking at the alumni gathering in connectlon with com- mencement exercises at Dartmouth College. “I make bold to say.” Mr sald, “that the United States could to- day with greater satisfaction submit disputes to which it Is a party to this court than to any arbit tribunal it would be possible to set Mr. Hughes applauded “the increas- ing interest in foreign peoples and our relations with them.” now evident in the United States. but said that if this interest was not to serve “mere- ¢ to promote the constant endeavors of propagandists or of racial groups < "5t nust have its support in a careful study of history” and the un- derstanding of other nations and their conditions which the colleges should provide. June 19.-~The Hughes Babel of Volcex. “In our foreign relations we dgs[r: peace, security and co-operation.’ said the secretary. “Would that the spirit of America had one voice. one | message! But there is a babel of voices, a confusion of- tongues. If danger threatens us we happily stand eced as to our own safety we are most !Qivided in our counsels. But, allow- ing for all the inevitable differences, {is it too much te expect that we Lould have onme cantrolling voice, {one dominant message to the funda- 1s? | ecause of this the United States can never regunzmm support to in- stitutions of. justide. ".\We recognize that there are two es of controversies which may lead to strife. There are the con- ficts of natlonal interests, of polit- jcal expediency, of rival police: | Where there is no agreement, no rec- ognized determining principles, no governing rulé of law which may be | Tnvoked. Here we are bound to rec- ognize the rights of 'other states, oqual members of the family of na- tions, as we unfailingly insist upon our own. It was said by one of our great statesmen that the forelgn pol- foy of the United States may be de- scribed as the Monroe Doctrine and | the golden rule. We shall achieve | our Lighest aims of helpfulness when {We think as much of the latter as we probably think of the former. Mecddling Net Proposed. “Helpfulness is not meddlesomeness and does not comsist in attempts to intrude uninvited decisions in con- troversies that are not ours. Our triendly offices are always available When they are welcome and "can properly be given, but it must be re- Iembered that friendship has its ! own tectnique, and this must be re- | Spected if friendship is to continue. { *PiBut in that class of controversies | where there are treaties to carry sut and commonly accepted prin o ples and rules of international law to apply we have a manifest duty. That duty is to maintain the sanc- tity of international engagements, to {aid in securing the impartial adjust- ment of differences and thus to in- Suro the adequate administration of .ternational justice. Tt we L 6o but lip-service | to this cause if we refrain from sup- porting the agencies of justice. It happens that at this time there ex- ists. s ‘functioning, a permanent | court of International juetice, equip- ped with a permanent body of jurists, as well cualificd for their task as anv judges that could be chosen— men whose character and equipment permit no charge of partiality or dis- qualification. “They constitute an independent tribunal, with the standards, the tenure of office and the oquipment that conform to the standards of our highest courts. In truth, they con- stitute In fact as well as in name an actual court of justice. “There is no path to the millenium other. than the path of justice, and if we discard the best attainable jn strumentalities of justice, to that ex- tent we_ invite the decisions of the sword. The true method of promot- ing international accord is to seek to avert the clash of Interests by agreement and to have agreemen i tairly Intérpreted and carried out | | | i i | President Harding, on leaving Washington tomorrow to' visit the Pacific coast and Alaska, will begin la trip that in mileage will be equal {10 ncarly two-thirds of the way around the world, but yet will leave standing the record presidential tour in point of mileage. Mr. Harding and his party on the basis- of the itinerary as now. ar- ranged will cover 15,057 miles from the time the presidential train leaves | here shortly after noon tomorrow until another spéctal train pulls into {the station here late in August | bringing _ the party back. This | mileage includes approximately 5,000 {miles by train and the remainder I mostly by beat—the naval transport | Henderson, which will take the ex- executive to Alaska and return; the Shipping Bosrd steamer President | Harrison, which will take him from San Diego, Calif., by way of the lunama canal to San Juan, Porto Rico, and another Shipping Board vessel, the American Legion, which will convey him from San Juan to 4 New York, i {of the United States Constitution and | Hughes sald | united. But when we are least concern- | We are intent on peace.| ol | 'Harding’s 15,057-Mile Alaska | Trip Will Not Beat Taft’s Record; []N HER IRlAl_ TRlP be WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1923 —-THIRTY-SIX PAGES. PRESIENT LEAVES CAPTALTONCRROW * ONZHONTH TOUR | Itinerary on Trip to Alaska and Return Calls for Nine- teen Speeches. {WILL SHUN SOFT PEDAL ON WORLD COURT PLAN | | First Address at St. Louis Thursday | Night—To Outline His Policies to People. | President Harding will leave | Washington tomorrow on a trip that will take him across the continent !and to far Alaska, and that will keep him away from the Caplital for ap-| proximately two months. Primarily the trip is to give the |Chief Executive and the members | of his official family who accompany him an opportunity to study the i{problems of Alaska at first hand. | But the trip also affords the Presi- dent an opportunity to outline to the people the administration's policles and the problems which must be met s he sees them. Politi, Efte | The President has been concerned jbecause of reports that his trip is In ithe nature of a campalgn for re- | Bomination and re-clection. At one time it was reported that he was | seriously considering canceling the | trip on’that account. That the trip jcannot fail to have political efrect. | however, Is the belief of politicai | observers here. i Three of the topics which the Pres- |ident has selected for addresses he Will deliver on his way west con-| !tain the germs of controversies be- | {tween the republicans on the one| ihand and the democrats on the other, | and between the various wings of the republicans themselves. They are | A(ht‘ world court, to which the Presi- | ! dent has recommended adherence by | |the United States: the transportation | ! problem, and the problems of the jagriculturists. There will be other important addresses alxo, on immi { gration, reclamation. the tariff, law enforcement, taxation, etc. St. Louls First Stop. { The first stop of the presidential party, other than for the purposes of changing engines. will be at St. Louis. There. Thursday night, Pres- ident Harding will discuss the world court. It is significant that the | President has chosen this subject for his first acdress. The attemnts of many of the republican leaders to put the soft vedal on the world conrt | idea apparently have been unsuccess- ful. - They have ~appealed to the President ‘not to bring about a con- | flict within the party on the eve of {a national campaign. when the re- ‘puhllmns will need all their united strength against their democratic (Cofitinued oh Page 2, Column 2.) | 1 1 i i NEW CONTRACT LET | ORVICTORY SHRINE { Foundation Bid by New York Firm Approved by Washing- ton Memorial Body. 1 | | I | 1 |ing an investigation ! bank commissioner. | The bank's surplus is llsted at 1$250,000. Its surplus. . undivided | profits and an equity in the bank | bullding are said to be $475,000. W. | N. Richards, president of the insti- | tution, expressed belief that deposi- tors would suffer no loss. Wholesale boom corn interests of Wichita were sald to be. the heav- iest depositors. The bank held state deposits of mearly $25,000. The alleged defaication was dis- covered last night. when officers of the depos.tory ciecked Drumm's a counts. Drumm was said to have in- The third big step toward erection {in the Mall of the Victory Memorial bullding tor the George Washington | Memorial Association has been taken | jin the award to the P. T. Cox Con- | | tracting Company of New York of | the confract for the foundations. The | corner stone has been laid and the | | cxcavations for the foundation com- | I pleted. - i | six firms, including four located | {in Washington, bid for the contract, | | which was awarded to the lowest| Lidder. Work on laying the founda- | tion is to begin at once and is to be | | completed in 180 working days, in- | {cluding the foundations under the | entire building, up to grade. | 5,000 Plles Required. The foundation is to be of re-in- forced concrete, thoroughly water- proofed and protected. More than 5,000 wooden piles are required to! carry this foundation. This s the second contract to be let by the George Washington Me- morial Association. The first con- {tract for the excavation work was ! recently . completed by the William | P. Lipscomb Company of this city. The Victory building is located on the Mall on the block bounded by | 6th and 7th and B streets. The build- ing itself is to be 300 by 350 feet! and is to contain a monumental audi- | torium, which will hold about 10,000 persons. . The corner stone was laid by Presi- dent Harding In the fall of 192 The 15,057 miles is shorter by | just twenty miles than the famous | swing-around-the-circle” made by nt Taft in 1911. On his trip | of 15,077 miles President Taft, how- | ever, 'did not leave the United States ' proper, but made an extended tour | through the middle west and west | and then through the south. He was | absent from the capital just about the | same length of time that President | Harding_will be gone—two months, | or from September 15 to November 12, Just a year previous Mr. Taft had made a trip of 12,750 miies, and in 1912 he traveled about 5,000 miles in going to the Panama Canal Zone. Mr. Taft not only holds the record for ‘the lomgest single trip, but no President has ever traveled as much in one term of office as the present Chief Justice did when he was In the White House. In his four years as chief executive, Mr. Taft, It is esti- mated, traveled 114,660 miles. Mr. Roosevelt made one sixty-six-day trip of about 14,000 miles, and, while figures are lacking, Mr. Wilson 1s con- sidered to have covered an equal mileage in his two trips to Paris, together with his visit to England, Italy and Belgium. | closed its doors early e WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION $1500 Q00SHORTACE CLOSES BIG BANK Cashier Said to Have Con- fessed Defalcation at_ Wichita, Kan. By the Assoclated Press. WICHITA, Kan. June American State Bank. one of the strongest state banks in Kansa this morning. following the discovery of the di falcation of $1,600.000 by Phillip A. Drumm, cashier, the Wichita clearing house apnounced. The cashier used the bank’'s funds to invest heavily in ofl properties, bank officers stated. Drumm confess- ed, agcording to clearing house offi- clals. The American States Bank.is twenty-one years old apd has a capi- tal of $160,000. Drumm has been with the institution seventeen years, the last one as cashier. Uned Bonds for Loans. The relatively large was explained in part by the fact that the bank held what was said to be in excess of one million dollars in Wichita school bonds. Drumm is al- | 1oans for investment in ofl ventures. !Drumm was in charge of the bond department of the bank. Criminal action was deferred pend- by the state vested considerable sums in the Saver | oil fields of southern Oklahoma. Whether he won or lost been revealed early today. Drumm could not be found after the defalcation was announced. His mother sald he was spending the night with friends. According, to clearing house officials, Drumm said that all personal properties would be turncd over to the bank. TRUST FUNDS SHORT. had not | By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa! June 19.—Dis- i covery of a shortage of $170,000 in trust funds of the Waynesboro Trust Company, Waynesboro, was reported today by Secretary of Banking Peter G. Cameron. Mr. Cameron announced he had ordered the arrest of Charles H. Coover, treasurer. The secretary said Coover had_made a confession to Second Deputy Secre- tary of Banking Charles H. Graeff, admitting the money was lost through speculation. .. e ) The shortage has been made good without loss either to the stockhold- ers or_the depositors, Mr. Cameron said. Coover was under $125,000 bond and the balance of the shortage was made up by the treasurer, who placed his property at the bank's disposal, and by the directors. LEVIATHAN SAILS Reports. of Injunction Pro- ceeding to Halt- Start . Fail to Materialize. By the Associated Press. | BOSTON, June 19.—The great-liner | Leviathan salled this afternoon on her trial trip to southern waters with several hundred guests of the Ship- | ping Board. Thick weather ' de- iprived persons on the mainland, { who had trained their glasses on her lnnchornw! in the lower harbor, of the opportunity of seeing her de- | parture, but Shipping Board officials gave word that she had started at the appointed time. Injuncticn proceedings td prevent the trip failed to materialize, not- withstanding reports that they might be brought. 5 3 19.—The | defalcation’ ‘Jugoslavia Keeps | “Hands Off’’ in Bulgar Affairs By the Associated Press BELGRADE, June 19 — Jugo- slavia will not intervene mili- tarily in Bulgaria, Foreign Min- ister Ninchitch told parliament | vesterday during an interpellation | on the Balkan situation. A theory of “war to prevent war” would megn a repetition of Austrian tactics toward Serbia in 1914, he asserted, and Jugoslavia was sufficiently strong so that Bulgarian events constituted no danger for her. SUBLRBAN STREETS TOGET 0L GOATIG Commissioners Vote $20,000 to Work to Be Started Here Immediately. { | | Scores of suburban streets =and | l'e . treated. with a coating of oil to {leged to have used these and olher;kutv down dust and help preserve bonds as collateral to float personal the macadam surface, the Commis- I sioners announced following a board | =ession today. | The work will cost cloe to $20,000 {apd Will be undertaken immediately Ty workmen under,C. B. Hunt, engi- | neer of highways. | fare: jnue to 24th street; W street, Massa- | chusetts avenue to Observatory Cir- |cle: Massachusetts avenue, Nebraska |avenue to District of Columbia line; through American University Park. Massachusetts avenue street: Grant ‘road, Chesapeake street {to Connecticut avenue; Chesapeake |street. River to Grant road; Fessen- den street, Belt road to Western ave- nue; River road. Davenport to Fes- senden street: Harrison strcet, Belt |road to Wisconsin avenue: Hunting- | ten street, Connecticut avenue to Belt {road; Ingomar street, Connecticut avenue to Belt road; Jenifer street, i Connecticut avenue 'to Belt road’ Jocelyn street, Connecticut avenue to | Reno road: Kanawha street, Connecti- cut avenue to 39th street; Keokuk street, 37th to 4lst street; Living- | 8tane street, Connecticut avenue to | 37th street. i Many to Be Surfaced. Morrison, Connecticut avenue to 37th; McKinley, Connecticut avenue to Nevada avenue; 38th street, Re {road to Keokuk; Reno road, Huntin iton to Keokuk: 13th street, Critten- den to Hamilton: 13th, Longfellow to Kennedy: 13th, Madison to Colorado avenue; Madison, Colorado avenue to 16th; Montague street, “A” road to 16th; 14th, Kennedy to Montague; Longfellow, Georgia avenue to 16th; Kennedy, from 16th street west; In- graham, 14th to Colorado avenue; Hamilton, 14th to Piney Branch road Hamilton, Georgia avenue to 13th: Gallatin, ' Georgia avenue to Piney Branch road; Piney Branch road, De- catur .to Colorado avenue; 15th, De- catur to Emerson; Farragut, 13th to 14th; Emerson, Georgia avenue to Piney Branch road; Decatur, Georgia avenue. to 16th; Delafield, - Georgia avenue to 14th; Crittenden, Georgia avenue to 13th; Webster, 14th to 16th. Morton, Sherman avenue to War- der; Quincy, Rock Creek Church road to 7th; Randolph, Rock Creek Church to Tth; Shepherd, Georgia avenue to 5th: Tavlor, Georgla avenue to New Hampshire;' Upshur, Georgla avenue to 13th: Varnum, Georsia avenue to 7th; Kansas avenue, Webster to Al- lison; Webster, Georgia avenue to 8th; 8th, Shepherd to Allison; Ken- nedy street, Concord avenue and Longtellow -street from 5th to Blair road: V street, North Capitol to 1st: Adams street, 2d to .North Capitol. In the northeast section—Lawrance, 17th to_22d; Otis. 10th to 12th: Morse. West Virginia ‘avenue ' to Trinidad avenue; Montello, Florida avenue to Mount 'Olivet road; West Virginia | avenue, Florida avenue to Morse: V. | street. North Capitol to Lincoln road; !12th street, Rhode Island.avenue to i Michigan avenue. 0 Southeas ingstone road, from Upsal to the Dis. trict line. | PRESIDENT NOT TO MEET PLEADERS FOR AMNESTY By the Associated Press. > ST. .LOUIS, June 18.—President Harding will not meet with a com- mittee 0f representative St. Louisans on his .visit- here Thursday to hear an appeal for amnesty for the fifty men confined in federal penitentiaries under convictions of alleged violation of war-time laws, according:to word received here today. . - | l as fast as t he papers are printed. Sfar. Yesterday's Net Ci::nlnfion,_ 91,240. L TWO CENTS.- Erwin Bergdoll To Be Arrested As He Quits Cell By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kan, June 19.—Erwin C. Bergdoll, whose sentence in the federal penitentiary on a draft evasion charge ends today with time for good be- havior taken off, will be rearrested at the prison gates, A warrant for his arrest on a charge of conspiracy with intent to evade the draft was ordered by the district attor- ney for the eastern district of Pennsyl- vania and has arrived at the office here of the United States marshal for Kan- sas. Bergdoll has served two years and ten months of his original four years’ sentence. EDUCATION BOARD MEMBERS CHOSEN :Ernest Greenwood New Ap- pointee, Lloyd and Mrs. Cook Retain Positions. Ernest Greenwood, American respondent of the American labor office of the league of nations, was | appointed a member of the board of education today by Justices of the | District Supreme Court to succeed Dr. | Abram Simon i | the re- Cook, whose pwwent board expire June FOOD LACK CREATES 5 | One of | supporters A Amcitan e ar R Born In Titusville, Pa. ay 4, 18 Germans Blame French for Disorganization of Trans- portation Lines. terms on 30, were cenwood's for ihe appointment on board, it Mr. AMr. reenwood was educated in th ! High School of Williamsport, Pa.: Mercersburg ~ Academy and _Cornell Universjty. Prior to 1917 he was 4 Newspaper cor pondent and at }cue time served as acting director {of information of the United States 1employment service; executive sec- j1etary to the emergency committec | on employment of service men of {1he Unitcd States Council of Na- | Uonal Defense. He alto was a spe- "lal assistant to the director of the | Larean of war risk insurance, execu- tive officer and deputy secretary gen- | By the Associated Press. | ESSEN, June 19.—There is growing James T. Lloyd and Mrs. Coralie F. | strong | unrest among the hundreds of thou- {sands of workingmen in the Ruhr {eral of the first international labor conference in 1919. Mr.. Greenwood is a member of the roads in all sections of the city will| | National Economic League, American Statistical Society, American Acad- emy of Political and Social Science, lley because of the increasing jshortage of food, particularly the {scarcity of meat, fresh mill. and |Civitan Club, National Press Club, | vegetables, notably potatoes. srices | Dumbarton Club, Theta Delta Chi fra- et e e T B R h;rnlly and 1chrm P. E. Church. He has the German newspapers are charging | 153y © 'oSident of the Districe since | profiteering. The oath of Joffice will be adminis- The Germans in general continue |teéred to Mr. Greenwood by Harry O. o blame the Fremch for the disor. )Hine. secretary of the board of edu- 3 5 cation, at the reorganization meets ! ganization of transportation by their |of the board, July 7 e seizures along the rallways, while! Mr. Lloyd has been on the school - board since December 21, 1921, when the rrench cast the blame back UPON | he'was appointed as successor to Dr. the. Germans for refusing 10 CO-|Henry B. Learned, who resigned. Mrs operate in the running of food trains. | Cook has served on the school board continuously since 1914. ESSEN WITHOUT MILK. CONVICTED BROKERS GIVEN 1 TO 4 YEARS i “Hunger Blockade” Said to Cripple | 1 i Germans. | By the Assoctated Press. i BERLIN, June 19.—A dispatch from | | Essen says that in consequence of ithe French “hunger blockade’ no | milk reached Essen vesterday. Pro- Edward M. Fuller and William F McGee Are Sentenced i vislons are being sent to the large; | cities and towns as far as possible by | to Sing Sing. In the northwest section the streets ! Calvert street, Connecticut ave- | to Fesscnden | Nichols avenue and Liv- | | motor lorrie. but the transportation iof supplies is seriouly impeded by {orders issued by Gen. Degoutte. A large number of wagons loaded with provisions have falien into the hands of the French. FRENCH IMPOSE TAX. | Germans Plan to Ignore Ad#tional Food Levy. | By the Associated Press. | ELBERFELD. June |man railroad officials in the Elber- [feld district. which is just on the ledge of the occupied area and !through which most of the trains for ithe Ruhr and the Rhineland have been passing, announced tonight that the French had imposed a tax of 10 per cent on all food shipments des- itined for the Ruhr and the Rhine- land. Furthiermore, they added. they had received notification that they must ,ply the transpertation charges for all food cars handled on the militarized {lines in the occupied area. ‘the Ger- Imans assert tlat they have no inten- tion of complying with the demands, German_government’s passive resist- ance order. The French announced last week !many. would be taxed 25 per cent, but at the time it was explained food would be admitted free. By the Associated Press. ! DORTMUND, June 19.—Foodstuffs population over the militarized rail- ways if the Germans did not refuse administration, it is stated in German quarters. The German authorities are said to regard these requirements not only as illegal, but impracticable. The Germans say the French have begun seizing all German means of transportation used for the distribu- tion' of foodstuffs, and today there is actually “a hunger circle” around the Ruhr. It is further stated thut the French have torn up most of the railroad tracks leading to and from the unoccupied mines and. foundries. This has imperiled iron preduction, as ymost of the foundries can no @onger { get in coal. - i | By the Associated Press NEW YORK. June 19.—Fdward M Fuller and William F. McGee, buck- eteers, today were sentenced to one year and three months to four years 18.—The Ger- | as this would be in violation of the' that all merchandise entering occu- | pled territory from unoccupied Ger- | would be permitted to go to the Ruhr; to pay the freight charges and the 10 per cent tax to the French railway | each in Sing Sing prison General Sessions Judge Nott im- posed sentence after Fuller yester- day had sought In vain to trade for immunity secrets he is believed tc hold regarding a ring behind Wall street's bucket shops. The fa‘lure of E. M. Fuller & Co. ! for $4,000.000 to $5.0000,000 furnish- {ed the street with its greatest bucket | shop thrill. The two partners re- cently pleaded guilty after a mistrial land two diragrecment CHARGE GUARD BEAT LUNATIC TO DEATH By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE. Md.. June 19.—Beat- en into insensibility by one of the | | | | i { I | Murray. thirty vears old, negro, a patient the State Hospital for Cole ored Insane at Crownsville, Md.. was found dving last night in ths cellar of the institution. He died a few minutes later in the hospital at the | asylum. | Walter Swisky. twenty-six years ;old, an attendant at the Crownsville Hospital. {s locked up tn the Anne Arundel county jail at Annapolis charged with the murder of Murray. A coroner's jury summoned by Fletcher Joyce,” a pdlice justice at Millersville, Md.. four miles from the hospital, investigated the killing and charged Swisky with the murder of Murray. Fought With Fiy Paper, | g Sherift Levely said the killing of Murray grew out of an argument be- tween “the negro and Swisky- earlier 1 in the evening. | pAfter, words had passed between them, Swisky, it was declared. plck- ed up a piece of sticky fly paper and | plastered it across Murray's mouth, [ The ~negro, retaliating, grabbed 1another plece and stuck it across the lattendant’s mouth. The men were separated after a tussle. Cancer Patient to Feel 300,000 guardy at the institution. Willlam H. | By the Assoc'ated Press, PHILADELPHIA, June 19.—Within i the next two weeks a patient suffer- ing from cancer will be placed under an X-ray of 300,000 volts, the highest voltage ever used to generate a Ro- entgen ray, Willlam Weber, a Ro- entgenologist; announced today. He has been assisting two Philadelphia physiclans in researches extending over several months. According to Weber, the physicians, | Volts From X-Ray in Treatment who desire that their identity be kept secret until their experiments have heen . completed, will venture even farther than did the Bellevue Hos- pital authorities ‘in Ncw York. The latter exposed a patient to X-rays of 260,000 volts for four periods of six- teen hours each, in an effort to cure abdominal cacer. The local physiclans have appara- tus calculated to generate 300,000 volts, but thus far they have not used ‘more than 240,000 volts, which have been applied to patients for two- hour periods. ¢ DOCTORS TO RULE ON SHPS NEED OF * MEDICA LIQUOR Wine Rations for Foreign Crews Available If Physi- cians Prescribe Use. NEW ATTITUDE ON LAW ORDERED BY MELLON Construction Allows for. Fulfilling of Other Nations’ Requirements for Stores on Vessels. | | | = | A part of the myst which | surrounded the latest Treasury move im the ship liquor controversy was !dispellea today by a declaration in jofficial circles that hereafter the | ships' doctor on a foreign ship will | be given custody in American waters | of such liquor as he is willing to cer- - tify is for “medicinal” purposes. Although no one at the Treasury would discuss the development in de {tail, it was assumed that undes this policy it will be possible for foreign ships to bring in wine rations for heir crews, under seal, provided the {doctor in charge chooses to regard | the intoxicants so carried as “medici- nal.” has Up to Ship Doctors. A letter sent yesterday by Secretary Mellon to the public health service { constitutes a construction of medici- nal provisions of the law, and makes sure that all foreign laws requiring | ships to carry medicinal liquors will be complied with. By those instruc- tions, a hip doctor may make a | sworn statement as to the liquors | they deem necessary for medicinal | purposes, and public health officers | will not @ispute their opinion. The letter is not regarded at the | Treasury as changing any section {of the regulations recently promul- gated to carry out the findings of the Supreme Court. 1t is conceded. how- ever, that it will work for elasticity in the regulatory pro ions. All officials connected with (_*nfnr('f‘- ment of the Treasury regulations e reluctant to discuss the move in the absence of Secretary Mellon, who left Washington last night to receive a university degree at Princeton. ~Hls departure followed closely his signa- ture of the.letter to the public healtn service. and first announcement ol the ruling came from officials of the French line in New York, who con- { strued it as meaning that their ships will be permitted to bring wine raticns into American ports undep seal ; ECmbassy Is Sient. The French ambassador, J. J. Jus serand. also Is away from Washing- (ton, and officials remaining at the French embdssy declared today they knew nothing of any new develop- ment in the liquor situation. They declined to express any opinion as to the construction placed on the Treasury action by the French line. Secretary Mellon's letter is deserib- |ed as y_general,” but it is said | there is nothing in it to permit un- { scaled liquors to come into the terri- |torial waters of the Unlted States. | None can be issued in American w Iters, it is sald, except upon phy clans’ regular prescriptions. The arrangement is believed by of- ficials to have accomplished the end to which the Treasury worked when it was drawing up the regulations. There were suggestions then that the right to bring in wine rations be clearly previded for under the “me- dicinal” clause, but that propos: finally, was abandoned. The wide discretionary powers now given ships' doctors, howéver, is expected to accomplixh the same purpose. Relaxation Is Seen. “ve Differences of opinion continue to prevail among Tregsury officials, and in the absence of the Secretary no definite interpretation of his instruc- tions is available. There is agree- ment, however, that the Secrethry materially relaxed the literal require- ments of the regulations. Half a dozen informal discussions of the questions involved have taken place ithin the last fortnight “be- tween- Treasury and State Depart- ment officials and foreign diplomats. Several of them were merely .tele~ phonic conversations. The one upon which the Treasury head based. his letter was held in New York last Thursda and was attended by rep- resentati g of the Treasury and public health service and counsel for ~ Continued on Page Z, Column 5) MEIKLEJOHN QUITS AS ANHERST HEAD Resignation Takes Effect Next June, President of Trustees Announces. Py the Aesociated Prees, AMHERST. Mass., June 19.—Prési- dent Alexander Meiklejohn ~of Am- | herst College has resigned, the resig- nation to take effect mext June. This announcement was made this after- noon by President George A. Plimp- {ton of the board of truste | The board of trustees went into its annual session today after a night in which a committee of the board was closeted with the president. The resignation accepted b | the trustees, to take effect at the end | of & vear's leave of absence with pay | The trustees in annéuncing the resig- nation made public correspondence between the board of Dr. Meiklejohn in which the president was &sked to resign as president, but to remain oy a member of the faculty. Dr. Meikle- john declared that he feit that such a. course would be_harmful to the col- lege rather than helpful. He felt that with the existing lack of support among the trustees it would be neces- sary for him to resign both as presf dent and as professor of logic and metaphysic . =